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Savvy users of laptop computers know that touch pads work best after one rubs the bridge of one's nose to 'lubricate' the touchpad finger, making it slide more easily. Sadly it's a finite resource. So let's brew up an analog and keep it in a little container nearby; similar to 'Sortwink' but with the
opposite effect.
Nasal Sebum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_sebum
Wikipedia describes the benefits of nose oil. [AusCan531, Sep 12 2014]
Relevant
Designer_20Device_20Grease
[rcarty, Sep 15 2014]
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Odd. I used to use a gas sniffer to examine fine welds that had been polished out of visibility. |
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A 316 stainless skin was built over an iron structure, then after polishing the skin was pressurized with...Helium, I believe it was? Something like that. |
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The sniffer could detect a very few ppm of gas, so if the weld was not perfect, but visually indetectable due to the polishing, the sniffer could pick up the gas leak. |
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When the sniffer became confused by too much exposure, or a propane forklift driving by, you took it apart, rubbed the small o-ring on your nose, put it back together and it worked just fine again. |
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And we never seemed to run out of nose oil, although some of us had nose oil that worked better than others. |
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If you used synthetic nose oil, would it have superior temperature resistance and durability just like synthetic motor oil ? |
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I was made aware at a young age, and before I had enough of my own to be useful, that nose oil was a good lubricant for fishing reels. |
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Later I became aware that nose oil could be used to kill the head on foamy tap beer. One Mr Casten would sometimes run out as young women approached him to first caress his nose and then correct their beers. |
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So yes: a myriad of uses! + |
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Nose oil is also traditionally used when gilding. It is tickly applying genuine nose oil to the brush, so synthetic might be worth trying. |
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Presumably it would come with a synthetic nose so as to be easy to dispense in the usual way? |
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An interesting horological note: if you apply nose-oil
to the balance wheel of a wristwatch which is
misbehaving, you'll ruin it completely. |
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The knot of a necktie, the bill of a baseball cap, or the frame of your eyeglasses would all be good places for the synthetic nose oil to be. Packaging that allows the product to be as close to the work as your nose will be more important that oil formulation. |
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[norm], what process was used on the welds? Just curious.
Also, 316 what? CM? Gas bath finishing seems extravagant
for anything short of a nuclear reactor. |
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At any given time of year you could harvest enough naturally to keep stocks high. |
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Nose oil is useful for massaging into the pores of a
new clarinet reed when breaking it in. |
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Nose oil is fairly effective for helping to remove
remaining adhesive after pealing a paper price
sticker. After removing a sticker and picking off
most of the paper, simply rub the pad of your
thumb across your nose then rub forcefully over
the remaining sticker residue. The nose oil will
allow large chunks of adhesive and remaining paper
to ball up an be more easily picked off. Thin films
of adhesive will be loosened enough so that they
can be polished off by rubbing on your jeans (or
other sturdy cotton cloth). Multiple application of
nose oil may be required. Substituting forehead
grease/sweat can work for big jobs when the
noise oil runs out. A cleaning solution such as Goo
Gone is much quicker and less physical effort to
use (I said "rub _forcefully_"), but it pretty much
requires washing with soap and water afterwards.
Nose oil can wiped off so that a metal or plastic
surface looks and feels pretty clean. |
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[Alterother], I believe it was TIG welded, 316 stainless. The outfit made process equipment - think of centrifuges ranging in size from a small chair to as large as your big deuce truck. |
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The market for these giant washing machines included pharmaceuticals, shampoos, explosives (not always deliberately, periodically we lost a customer), and anything you wanted to make in big batches. Sometimes the goal was to extract a solid from a liquid, other times it was the other way around. |
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We used a lot of 316, 302, hastelloy, and titanium. Economics drove large carbon steel weldments coated in exotic skins, and sometimes castings. All good fun for a guy getting started in QC and inspection. |
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When I read // centrifuges // I suddenly got it. Pretty
cool. Your description verges on welderotica. |
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Amusingly enough, a search for "welderotica" yielded only five hits, none of which were pertinent. Maybe if I publish it as a monthly [Alterother] will subscribe to it. |
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// Gas bath finishing seems extravagant for anything short of a
nuclear reactor. // |
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It's widely used in ISM applications - like pharma - and it's essential
for ultra high vacuum equipment, like mass spectrometers and
particle accelerator beam lines. Where you're terminating a thin tube
with a relatively thick flange, you only get one go at the weld. |
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The sniffer gas would be helium, the detector probaby a small
quadrupole mass spec; properly tuned, they can sniff down to ppb
levels. |
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When building and testing mass specs, it's trivially easy to tune them
to helium - they often have a "leak detect" mode - and then just blow a
little helium at any suspect joints. Since even a fairly cheap unit can
detect down to 1 x 10^-9 mBar, leaks soon show up. |
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It was fun to take a piece polished so the weld was indetectable, find a leak, and mark the spot and tell the welder it leaked and to do it over again. They look at you like you're crazy. |
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The next time you have to make them watch you test it.. |
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my uncle taught me 40+ years ago to use nose oil to
lubricate door hasps. Still use this handy hint to this
day. |
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my uncle taught me 40+ years ago to use nose oil to
lubricate door hasps. Still use this handy hint to this
day. |
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Slight stereographic quality to last two posts. Not to mention nose trapped in door hazard. |
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//nose trapped in door hazard// |
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// door hasps // What part do you lubricate, the
hinge? I could see how nose oil might be handy to
lubricate the latch on a typical door, making it slide
more smoothly over the strike plate. Is that what
you meant? |
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Come clean [MB], nose oil is a primary ingredient in Rentishams, isn't it? |
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I read a science-fiction story, decades ago, where the young hero
lands on Mars and winds up stuck there. He builds an air
compressor, which squeaks. When his girlfriend comes after him,
she silences the squeaky compressor with nose oil. |
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//primary ingredient in Rentishams, isn't it?// |
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It might be rumour, but I heard Rentisham's is unique in
having several primary ingredients. |
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//nose oil is a primary ingredient in Rentishams, isn't
it?// |
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During the early development work, Benthamby
Rentisham tried many, many ingredients. According
to his notebook, preserved at the Rentisham
museum, formulations 455 through 533 included
greater or lesser amounts of nose oil, harvested in a
variety of ways. He eventually concluded that,
whilst nose oil was superbly flegative even in small
quantities, it was not sufficiently consistent to form
the basis of a reliable product. It was not until
formulation 673 that he found a substitute which was
not only as highly flegative as the best nose oil, but
was consistent from batch to batch. |
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I am not, of course, at liberty to disclose which of
the ingredients listed on the Rentisham's tin supplies
the uniquely flegative quality of The Wax; nor how it
is processed, which remains a secret known only to a
very few people. |
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As an interesting side-note, you may be surprised to
learn that Prince Philip suffers from a rare and
hereditary condition known as xeroderma naris,
which results in an insufficiency of nose oil. He can
sometimes be seen massaging the bridge of his nose,
and the astute observer will note that before doing
so he dips his hand into his jacket pocket, wherein
rumour has it he keeps a tublet of Rentisham's. |
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There is a rumour that Freud had his nose operated on several times because, among other reasons, it was the centre of the id. We understand why you want nose oil on your touch pad. Sicko. |
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No, no … he was simply misunderstood, or pehaps misheard.
Sigmnd Freud was Jewish, and what he actually said was" centre
of the yid", but in his heavy accent confusion was inevitable. |
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you mean "scenter of the yid". |
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Well of course, it all makes sense now, doesn't it ? The whole
discipline of psychoanalytics founded on nothing more than a
couple of misheard words … |
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dibertly miss under standing: So the synthetic nose needs
oiling? |
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I had no knowledge of this nose oil gem you have described. I
love this. + |
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